It’s 2020
it makes no sense to build anything on a 700 SA
Especially if you use a Wyatt's extended mag box.I disagree 100 percent, plenty of good builds going on with Rem 700 SA .
LOL Amen to that!If you think anything in the precision shooting world makes financial sense you and i need to have a long talk.
Exactly right a 6BR with Remage barrel won HV 200 yard score match this past weekend . Entire gun cost less than $ 1000 ,barrel and trigger were the only new parts ...it beat custom actions.guns that cost 3-5 times more.I also disagree. Over the years a lot of fine rifles have been built using the Rem 700 SA & LA. And now days with the availability of switch barrels many more can be built very reasonably.
hey, watch out--my wife still believes venison is cheap...Yeah, like hunting to save money on food. View attachment 1198885
Musta been 15 years ago I was working an OT job and a guy on our crew took a week off at the start of gun season. Next week he gets back and brings us some venison to cook up and have for lunch. We were eating and he says “ Enjoy it Boys that’s about $250.00 per pound”. Wasn’t nearly as good as the corn fed around here either.Yeah, like hunting to save money on food. View attachment 1198885
Yeah I was thinking Shooting in general.If you think anything in the precision shooting world makes financial sense you and i need to have a long talk.
Doesn't it depend on the application? My understanding is that recent mfg Rem 700 actions are [much] better than they used to be. Enough better that for hunting, XTC and PRS they can be used as is [i.e., 1/2 MOA groups easily within reach].The comment was made 100% in jest but I’ll stand behind it and play the game.
Pay to true, time, and trigger job on a 700sa and you could have bought an entire tikka lite rifle and then parted it out Recouping money. That’s leaving out cost of opening for a wyatts which you won’t need.
Or pay an extra 300$ and you are in a defiance tenacity.
All this leaving current rem QC aside.
I’ll amend to, aside from nostalgia And rebuilding a rifle/action you already own there’s no sense in it. I never once said great rifles haven’t been built on one.
I build single shots on a short action, up to and including 300NM. Here is my reminder that Remingtons can be made to shoot as good or better than custom actions. It does make it more economically appropriate if you can do the work yourself.
http://forum.accurateshooter.com/th...-the-high-score-with-a-remington-700.4001701/
--Jerry